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Special offer. Haydn: The Seasons, Hob.XXI:3
RecommendedChristina Landshamer (soprano), Maximilian Schmitt (tenor), Florian Boesch (baritone)
Collegium Vocale Gent & Orchestre des Champs-Elysees, Philippe Herreweghe
With a first-rate trio of soloists, the accomplished Collegium Vocale Gent and the period sonorities of the Orchestre des Champs-Elysées, the results are thoroughly satisfying. —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2014, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Gramophone Awards, 2015, Finalist - Choral
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These are generally no-nonsense accounts, with brisk tempos of a kind favoured these days in period-instrument performances...these are impressive, if somewhat unyielding performances, and they... —
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Special offer. Beethoven: Missa Solemnis in D major, Op. 123
Marlis Petersen (soprano), Gerhild Romberger (mezzo-soprano), Benjamin Hulett (tenor) & David Wilson-Johnson (baritone)
Collegium Vocale Gent & Orchestre des Champs-Élysées, Philippe Herreweghe
With a smallish orchestra, period practices and a tight grip on tempos, this is one of the least relenting performances I have heard. —
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Special offer. Haydn: Die Schöpfung
Christina Landshamer (soprano), Maximilian Schmitt (tenor) & Rudolf Rosen (baritone)
Collegium Vocale Gent & Orchestre des Champs-Élysées, Philippe Herreweghe
[the music] bursts from the speakers with the same combination of vigour, technical accomplishment and, above all, unforced pleasure in Haydn's cornucopian invention that should make even the... —
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Sunday Times, 2015, Albums of the Year
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Herreweghe maintains focus throughout the music, refusing to allow the Second’s motivic working to sink into prolixity. His wind soloists make a lovely sound and the rest of the orchestra is... —
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Special offer. Beethoven: Christus am Ölberge
Collegium Vocale Gent, Orchestre Des Champs-Élysées, Philippe Herreweghe
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Special offer. Beethoven: String Quartet Op. 130 & Grosse Fugue Op. 133
Edding Quartet & Nothernlight
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Schubert's Octet is such an infectiously joyous piece that it's impossible not to feel uplifted by it - especially when it's played as well as it is here. This is a performance that conveys... —
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an unmitigated delight…the winner among these works is Symphony No. 3…enchanting in every way, with Schubert's devotion to Beethoven's Second Symphony, in the same key, evident but unstressed —
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Special offer. Philippe Herreweghe: A Conversation with Camille De Rijck
CD5 + Book
Thomas Hobbs (tenor), Collegium Vocale Gent (chorus), Brigitte Balleys (soprano), Rosemary Joshua (soprano), Ilse Eerens (soprano), Bernarda Fink (alto), Maximilian Schmitt (tenor), Nathan Berg (bass), Christina Landshamer (soprano), Ewa Wolak (contralto), Magnus Staveland (tenor), Florian Boesch...
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